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Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Gomal Medical College.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1819-7973Verify ISSN ↗1997-2067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gomal Medical College
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 45 / 52 | 14th | Q4 |
| Medicine (all) | 589 / 669 | 11th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 192 / 194 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences is Q4 in Pharmacy (rank 45 of 52), Q4 in Medicine (all) (rank 589 of 669) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 192 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.3, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 14th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.116, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences is published by Gomal Medical College. Its print ISSN is 1819-7973 and its online ISSN is 1997-2067.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 50 Scopus journals in Pharmacy.
Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences published 28 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 42. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 43 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Pakistan (66.3%), China (13.6%) and Türkiye (5.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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